The bill is indexed to your headcount
Per-user, per-month pricing means every contractor, every seasonal hire, and every service account is a line item forever. Identity is infrastructure; infrastructure should not be priced like a seat.
Identity & access · Straventa Accounts
Looking for an Okta alternative that runs in your own data centre
Okta is a capable product. The two things that push Indonesian organisations off it are rarely features: the invoice grows with headcount, and the identity data sits in a region your regulator did not pick. Straventa Accounts is the same job — one login across every application — deployed inside your infrastructure and licensed per deployment.
Why teams move
What actually pushes organisations off Okta
Your identity data lives in someone else's region
Every authentication event, session, and user record is processed abroad. That is a conversation with your regulator and your board, not a technical detail — and it is not a conversation you can end by choosing a nearer region.
Support runs on someone else's clock
At 03:00 Jakarta time you are in a queue behind a timezone that is asleep or busy. What you bought was a support tier, not a person.
The policy layer is not portable
The protocols are standard, but the workflows, rules, and policy logic you built inside the vendor are not. That is the part of a migration nobody budgets for.
What does not carry over
Okta ships SAML 2.0 and SCIM provisioning. Straventa Accounts does not — we ship OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 (Authorization Code with PKCE, discovery, JWKS) and nothing else today. If an application in your estate only speaks SAML, it needs an OIDC-to-SAML bridge in front of it, and joiner/leaver provisioning is scripted against the Accounts API rather than driven by SCIM. If SAML or SCIM is a hard procurement requirement, tell us in the first call and we will tell you plainly whether the timeline works.
Straventa vs Okta
Straventa Accounts compared with Okta
Written for the person who has to defend the choice in a board pack. Competitor rows describe each vendor's publicly documented model at time of writing.
| Criterion | Straventa Accounts | Okta |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment model | Self-hosted on your Kubernetes or Docker, or Straventa-managed at accounts.straventa.com. Your choice, same product. | SaaS only. |
| Where identity data lives | Your infrastructure, in Indonesia. Nothing leaves your environment on the self-hosted deployment. | Vendor regions abroad. |
| Pricing model | Per deployment, annual. Not per seat — headcount growth does not change the invoice. | Per user, per month, per add-on module. |
| Who operates it | You, or Straventa under contract. Start managed and take it in-house later without re-platforming. | Vendor. |
| Who answers at 03:00 | A named Straventa engineering contact, on terms set in your contract, in your timezone. | The support tier you purchased, offshore timezone. |
| Protocols | OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 — PKCE, discovery, JWKS. SAML and SCIM are not shipped today; see the FAQ. | OIDC and SAML. |
| Multi-tenant / group structure | Native tenant hierarchy with descendant-scoped permissions — built for holdings with subsidiaries. | Separate orgs, priced separately. |
| Ships integrated with your payments and ops stack | Yes — Payops and the Ops platform already authenticate against it and resolve permissions through it on day one. | An integration project. |
| Exit cost | Standard OIDC. Your apps point at an issuer URL — repoint them and leave. | Standard protocols, proprietary policy and workflow layer to rebuild. |
Competitor rows describe each vendor’s publicly documented model at time of writing; confirm current terms with the vendor before making a decision.
Migration
Moving off Okta, without a flag day
Both systems run in parallel until the last application is across. There is no single evening on which everything has to work.
Step 1 Inventory what actually authenticates
List the applications behind Okta and split them: OIDC-native, SAML-only, and legacy. The OIDC set moves first and is usually most of the estate.
Step 2 Stand Accounts up beside Okta
Deploy inside your infrastructure with Okta still live. Nothing is cut over yet and rollback is a configuration change, not a project.
Step 3 Import users and move the first app
Users import against the Accounts API. Pick the lowest-risk internal application, repoint it at the new issuer, and run both providers in parallel until you are satisfied.
Step 4 Move the rest on your schedule
Applications move one at a time. Okta stays until the last one is off it, so there is never a flag day.
Straight answers
Questions we get from Okta teams
- Is this cheaper than Okta?
- It is priced differently, which is usually the point. Straventa Accounts is licensed per deployment, annually — adding a thousand users does not change the invoice. Whether that is cheaper than your Okta contract depends entirely on your seat count and which add-on modules you are on, so we would rather model it against your actual numbers in the architecture review than quote you a number here that turns out to be wrong.
- Can we run it managed first and take it in-house later?
- Yes, and that is the common shape. Start on Straventa-managed at accounts.straventa.com, then move the deployment into your own Kubernetes or Docker when your team is ready. It is the same product either way, so moving is a deployment change and not a re-platform.
- What happens to our MFA enrolments?
- Users re-enrol their second factor against Accounts. There is no supported way to export authenticator secrets from one identity provider into another — any vendor who tells you otherwise is describing something you should not want. We sequence enrolment alongside the application cutover so users do it once.
Model it against your actual seat count.
Bring your Okta contract, your application inventory, and your constraints. We will show you where Accounts fits, what it costs per deployment, and which of your applications are the awkward ones.